Tennessee School Expels 10-Year-Old for
Making a Finger Gun
Reason,
by
Emma Camp
Original Article
Posted By: nuclearnavymom,
8/28/2024 11:30:54 AM
A Tennessee 10-year-old was expelled from school for a full year after he pointed his finger in the shape of a gun and made mock "machine gun" noises, according to a ProPublica investigation.The boy was expelled as part of a "zero tolerance" law in Tennessee that mandates any student who makes a threat of "mass violence" be expelled for at least one year. While the law, originally signed in 2023—following a shooting by a former student at a private school in Nashville—was recently amended to direct schools to expel students only for "valid" threats, the provisions of the law are still vague, and schools have considerable enforcement leeway.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 8/28/2024 11:36:07 AM (No. 1786350)
A shame that the stocks and public whippings have gone out of style. A real shame.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 8/28/2024 11:40:49 AM (No. 1786354)
States and institutions adopt laws and rules like this so officials don't have to have good judgement or common sense. They can't figure out why people want to homeschool.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
billsv 8/28/2024 11:51:37 AM (No. 1786357)
Most boys will never make it through school. Is a stick for a rifle also mmm a no no?
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Coulda been worse, —coulda chewed a Pop Tart in the shape of a gun …
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Proud Texan 8/28/2024 11:58:27 AM (No. 1786363)
Since the law was amended to say "for valid threats", seems to me like the law would be okay except for the part where it depends on school officials to have any common sense. Those officials have completely purged themselves of common sense and have given their self-control over to the tyrant within themselves.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Mcscow sailor 8/28/2024 11:59:35 AM (No. 1786365)
Typical. Target the guilty, punish the innocent
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 8/28/2024 12:11:38 PM (No. 1786370)
Come on Ldotters, we're dealing with academia here. If they believe a boy can identify as a girl than it follows that a finger can identify as a weapone
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 8/28/2024 12:13:36 PM (No. 1786371)
Oh, BTW...that letter at the end of the word weapon is actually a period that identifies as the letter E.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Mcscow sailor 8/28/2024 12:14:27 PM (No. 1786373)
And a weapon can I’d as a finger
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
MaMe2 8/28/2024 12:36:03 PM (No. 1786382)
Gee, if only this child had given the middle-finger. Seems like an announcement every morning reminding students of behaviors that are unacceptable is called for.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
jalo1951 8/28/2024 12:45:15 PM (No. 1786384)
My neighbors left a lot to be desired. A married couple but each was having their sexual flings and loud fights. They had two boys several years apart. The older boy left school and decided joining a gang would be a smart idea. Selling drugs. He eventually was killed in a drug sell gone bad. His younger brother was in my computer class that I taught. I remember watching him make a gun finger and putting it on the temple of the student next to him. Said something about killing him dead just like his brother. It was unnerving. I did tell his class room teacher and let her take it from there. He was not expelled. He was obviously under a severe stress. His parents were no help. He was referred to our school psychologist for counseling to help him work through his feelings. He was only 8. What boy or girl doesn't make a gun and go bang bang. I mean, really. I grew up playing cowboys and Indians with my friends and none of us grew up to actually shoot each other. I have seen kids physically beat up another student and almost nothing is done. And if the victim fights back he ends up suspended too. Excuse the pun but too many schools are doing an overkill on these situations. I understand the rise of homeschooling but not everyone can implement that plan. Kids need to be in school. Pull the student aside and let him know that he simply can't do that at school.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Skinnydip 8/28/2024 12:49:41 PM (No. 1786386)
Another stupid law created by stupid woke politicians based on feelings rather than common sense.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
BarryNo 8/28/2024 2:37:00 PM (No. 1786428)
Shall... Not... Be... Infringed...
Not even finger guns.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
daisey 8/28/2024 2:44:30 PM (No. 1786440)
That’ll teach him, won’t it? Heck, I had a cowgirl outfit and a cap gun when I was about 5 or 6 and I’ve never shot anyone. But that was 1950. This is stupid. I guess re-education camps are next.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
kono 8/28/2024 2:48:07 PM (No. 1786444)
Holding your hand as if it is a pistol supposedly conditions youth to shoot people with real guns.... But saturation in video games that have your character fragmenting human bodies for points doesn't condition them to act out violent urges.... Hard to expect the Left to have intellectual integrity, when so few of them have any apparent intellect to start with.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
skacmar 8/28/2024 3:26:41 PM (No. 1786463)
More people have been hurt or killed by lack of common sense than finger guns.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
DVC 8/28/2024 4:21:13 PM (No. 1786489)
Got to stop all the carnage from finger guns..
Do you how many people have died from careless use of a finger gun?
Yep....NONE, ever.
Idiots in charge.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 8/28/2024 4:56:07 PM (No. 1786506)
I'll make a 'finger gun' for these school officials...
But only the finger in the middle will be extended.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Highlander 8/28/2024 5:21:20 PM (No. 1786524)
When finger guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have finger guns.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
mifla 8/29/2024 6:00:10 AM (No. 1786727)
I have two finger guns. Both of them together have killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.
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For all the good Tennessee has done, this make me ashamed for my state.